Can we make custom form as default form in BCM 2010?

early riser

Member

Hi,

I have a few questions on custom form.

I just finished customizing a new record type from account-based record type in BCM 2010. I gave the form name as Visiting Information. So, now I would like to make this form as the default form instead of the standard Account form. Say for instance when user double click at the Account pane to create a new record, my Visiting Information form will be opened instead of the normal Account form. How can I make that happen?

If item #1 is not achievable, can I maybe add the shor tcut menu at the ribbon to create new Visiting Information record? What I have now is, I have to go to the ribbon for New Item > New Account > Visiting Information. Is it possible to do have a New Visiting Information menu on the ribbon?

One of my custom fields (using the account-based record type) in Visiting Information requires a really long text field (like multiple text line). I created a new field for it but there isn't any datatype for long text. Only text available. How can I increase the text size because I really need to have that field. I can't use Comment anymore since it has been used before in the first page of the form. Please assist.

Diane Poremsky

Senior Member

1. right click on the folder where you want to use it and choose properties - can you set the form there? (I forget if that works for BCM and it doesn't work with Outlook 2013 yet, so its not installed to check)

Diane Poremsky

Senior Member

Afaik, it's not recommended to change the data types, but yes, it is possible to make the change on the SQL server. I haven't tried it (yet) so I can't say if it causes other problems. I can try it but I'm mostly a "Sunday morning" bcm user and will only know if it causes immediate problems, not bugs that show up later.